Markus:
Now that you have shared with me your suggestions, I will share my plans.
I am working with version 1.5bSVN, which I checked out of the MediaWiki
REL1_14 branch of Subversion. (I never use the trunk, because the trunk
changes too often, and sometimes I've checked things out of the trunk
that have broken my wiki--thankfully, never beyond repair.)
I am now planning an extensive revision of my Historical Date data type,
with a view to using it /instead of/ the Date data type. In the process
I plan to put all the month names into all the language files, and write
the routines that call those month-name arrays when needed. In that
manner the file need not be so big, and will support the native language
of the wiki. You should know that my wiki has versions in every language
that my custom date currently supports, though only the English and
French versions are extensively annotated.
I'll send you the language files as I work on them.
Temlakos
Markus Krötzsch wrote:
> On Donnerstag, 26. Februar 2009, Temlakos wrote:
>
>> Here is a language file that conforms to the SMW 1.14.x standard. To
>> build this, I checked out the current SMW source code from Subversion,
>> opened the Spanish-language file, saved it as SMW_LanguagePt.php, and
>> modified it with translations I received from a personal friend who
>> speaks the language.
>>
>
> Great, thank you. The file works with the current development version of SMW
> as well, and I have now checked it into SVN.
>
> There are two things that you may want to check/add:
>
> (1) Since there is already Portuguese language in BetaWiki, your friend may
> want to check that both translations agree (especially, core notions like
> "property" do also appear in messages). I think there is no way to create our
> non-message language files from BetaWiki; this is why we have this strange
> setup where only 90% is translated online and you still need to send files to
> me.
>
> (2) With the new date support, SMW includes translations of month names
> within
> its language file. They are not mandatory (English is always available), but
> they are useful (maybe you can even exploit them in your historic date code).
> The format is simple: two arrays for long and abbreviated names; German
> example below:
>
> protected $m_months = array("Januar", "Februar", "März", "April", "Mai",
> "Juni", "Juli", "August", "September", "Oktober", "November", "Dezember");
>
> protected $m_monthsshort = array("Jan", "Feb", "Mär", "Apr", "Mai", "Jun",
> "Jul", "Aug", "Sep", "Okt", "Nov", "Dez");
>
> In addition, we have an array with preferences for writing dates, controlling
> how ambiguous dates such as "10-11-12" are interpreted (the preferred order
> of
> components). This looks as follows by default:
>
> protected $m_dateformats = array(array(SMW_Y), array(SMW_MY,SMW_YM),
> array(SMW_DMY,SMW_MDY,SMW_YMD,SMW_YDM));
>
> These are the preferred interpretations for dates with 1, 2, and 3 components
> (time is not relevant here). There is an array for each case, and the
> constants define the obvious order (e.g. SMW_YDM means "first Year, then Day,
> then Month"). Unlisted combinations will not be accepted at all. Let me know
> if you would like to change this for Portuguese.
>
> -- Markus
>
>
>> Markus, the previous version made reference to one of my custom
>> datatypes and also used some obsolete special-property code references.
>> This file uses the current special-property names and makes no
>> extraneous datatype references. You may if you wish check this into
>> Subversion (the 1_14 branch, where I obtained my originals).
>>
>> I built the Portuguese file because this friend is going to build a new
>> Portuguese version of my wiki, and I wanted the proper language support
>> for SMW.
>>
>> Temlakos
>>
>
>
>
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